Tag Archives: Theif

A thief has hit seven Flushing businesses since last November, stealing as much as $18,000 during one of the incidents, cops said.

In the latest theft, at about 11:30 p.m. on July 14 at the Lyauaidai Cleaning Company on Prince Street, the suspect also got away with a large loot, taking, $13,000 in cash out of a drawer, according to police.

The suspect first struck the Motors Driving School on November 2013. After entering the school, located on Roosevelt Avenue, the suspect stole a bag out of a closet containing a debit card, credit card, Michael Kors bag and $30 in cash, cops said.

On Dec. 12 of that year, the thief allegedly took a bag containing $18,000 in cash and several credit cards from the Sarang Bang Restaurant on 41st Avenue.

Police have also connected the suspect to four January 2014 store thefts in Flushing, where the stolen goods included iPhones, a wallet containing credit cards and $3,000 in cash.

The suspect is described as about 30 years old, with a medium build and has brown hair and brown eyes. Cops have released a photo of the suspect from a theft that took place at a telecommunications store at 136-84 Roosevelt Ave. on Jan. 15. He was last seen wearing a black hat, black sneakers, blue jeans and a black and gray North Face backpack.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or can text their tips to CRIMES (274637), then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.

FBI busts Brooklyn teacher’s aide for allegedly making child porn with students

A teacher’s aide at a Brooklyn school was arrested again yesterday by the FBI and charged with making child pornography videos of students he was assaulting at the grade school where he worked, authorities said today. It is the second time in the last two weeks that FBI agents have charged Taleek Brooks with offenses linked to illegally possessing films of underage children engaged in sexual acts. After his first arrest in mid-January, Brooks allegedly confessed that he had assembled more than 1,000 pornographic images of young children on his computers, according to a report filed by Brooklyn federal prosecutors. Read More: New York Post

Prosecutors have yet to convene grand jury in Cashman ‘stalker’ case

Yankees GM Brian Cashman’s alleged shake-down stalker learned some good news in Manhattan Criminal Court today: prosecutors have agreed to take more time investigating the case before convening a grand jury on possible felony grand larceny charges. Louise Meanwell, 35 — who also uses the let name Neathway — looked grim but clear-minded after making the trip from jail to court, and turned up at the defense table wearing a snug-tailored charcoal pants suit and repeatedly flipping her long blonde hair from her face. She’d last come to court Feb. 3, and had that time treated news photographers to a slide-show stack of emotions and poses, rolling her eyes, tearing up and laughing in turns. Read More: New York Post

Hotel art thief is prison-bound

A compulsive fine art fan is going to prison for at least a year after getting caught lifting hundreds of thousands of dollars in paintings from the lobby walls of the Carlyle and Chambers hotels in Manhattan. Mark Lugo, 31, was a restaurant waiter with caviar taste — as much as $700,000 in stolen art and fine wine was recovered from his Hoboken, NJ apartment when cops busted him this past summer. Lugo pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court today to one count of grand larceny in the second degree, the top charge against him. Read More: New York Post

Donald Trump’s son-in-law is making a play to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers. If successful, Jared Kushner would be the most high-profile New Yorker to own the team since Walter O’Malley, who broke Brooklyn’s heart by moving the Dodgers to L.A. before the 1958 season. Kushner, who is just 31 and married to Ivanka Trump, would also be the youngest owner in Major League Baseball. While Kushner has not said anything publicly about the bid, the editor of his newspaper — The New York Observer — gave it a thumbs up. Read More: Daily News

Teens charged with burglary and sexual assault in home-invasion robbery in Brooklyn

Disturbing details emerged Monday about a Brooklyn home invasion by four teens, the youngest only 13-years-old, who allegedly tied up a couple, ransacked their home and took turns sexually assaulting the woman. As one robber went to get cash with stolen ATM cards, the three others repeatedly forced the 22-year-old victim to perform oral sex, threatening to kill her if she refused, prosecutors said. “The defendants are known members of the Brower gang,” Assistant District Attorney Wilfredo Cotto said in Brooklyn Criminal Court. Read More: Daily News

Over 20 Department of Education employees have been disciplined over the course of the past 2 years due to inappropriate conduct. Angel Vazquez, a teacher at P.S. 117 in Queens was fired after complaints that he waved a box cutter at students, and berated them. Richard Van Grover, a teacher at Junior High School 157 in Queens also acted indecent with students. Van Grover sexually harassed 10 students by giving them intimate details of his life as a “Casanova”. Van Grover was fined and relocated to another school. No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty talk. Read more: Daily News

More details emerge on Queens’ identity theft ring

More light has been shed on the Queens based identity theft ring that was busted last week. Details of how the ring was operated were released by the prosecutors over the weekend. An estimated 13 million dollars’ worth of losses comes as a result of the crooks misdeeds. Read more about the entire operation at: Daily News

YaGotTheWrongGuy

Police apprehended a suspect in the iPhone theft that was perpetrated last week. The highly publicized theft revolved around the iPhone app iGotYa which took a picture of the thief and emailed it to the victim. Brian Chattoo, 23, from Ozone Park was arrested Saturday when he ran from police. Chattoo has a rap sheet with 14 prior offenses ranging from grand larceny to auto theft, but claims he is not the man in the photo. Read more at: Daily News

Court date approaches for Queens drunk driver

On July 24th after a night of boozing Tanisha Gomez, 26, of Queens drove the wrong way on I-95 and crashed into an oncoming car. This crash resulted in the death of 29 year old Reginald Lee. Ms. Gomez’s court date is set for October 18th, where she is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter, drunken driving, and vehicular assault. Read more at: Wall Street Journal